M&A Deal Summary

DELL EMC Acquires Likewise Software

On March 20, 2012, DELL EMC acquired software company Likewise Software

Acquisition Highlights
  • This is DELL EMC’s 35th transaction in the Software sector.
  • This is DELL EMC’s 49th transaction in the United States.
  • This is DELL EMC’s 4th transaction in Washington.

M&A Deal Summary

Date 2012-03-20
Target Likewise Software
Sector Software
Buyer(s) DELL EMC
Deal Type Add-on Acquisition

Target

Likewise Software

Bellevue, Washington, United States
Likewise provides software that helps big companies and storage vendors sort through and control access to the mountains of data that modern computing generates.

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Buyer

DELL EMC

Hopkinton, Massachusetts, United States

Category Company
Founded 1979
Sector Information Technology
Employees63,900
Revenue 24.4B USD (2014)
DESCRIPTION
EMC's corporate headquarters in Hopkinton, Massachusetts.
EMC's corporate headquarters in Hopkinton, Massachusetts.

Dell EMC, a part of Dell Technologies, enables organizations to modernize, automate and transform their data center using industry-leading converged infrastructure, servers, storage and data protection technologies. This provides a trusted foundation for businesses to transform IT, through the creation of a hybrid cloud, and transform their business through the creation of cloud-native applications and big data solutions. Dell EMC, formerly EMC Corp., was established in 1979 and is based in Hopkinton, Massachusetts.


DEAL STATS #
Overall 53 of 68
Sector: Software M&A 35 of 38
Type: Add-on Acquisition M&A Deals 52 of 67
State: Washington M&A 4 of 4
Country: United States M&A 49 of 61
Year: 2012 M&A 2 of 8
PREVIOUS DEAL
DATE TARGET DEAL TYPE VALUE
2012-03-20 Pivotal Labs

San Francisco, California, United States

Pivotal Labs, Inc. is a provider of agile software development services and tools.

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FOLLOWING DEAL
DATE TARGET DEAL TYPE VALUE
2012-05-10 XtremIO

Herzelyia, Israel

XtremIO delivers the breakthrough scale-out architecture, consistent performance, data reduction, thin provisioning, and manageability you’ve been waiting for in an enterprise flash array. More than its individual features, XtremIO allows you to completely rethink your old assumptions about shared storage. Workload consolidation, dynamic provisioning, production & test/development storage consolidation, zero maintenance windows, and more are now real opportunities as you unlock the full business value of flash across your data center.

Buy $430M